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You certainly must have a sense that our Heavenly Father has selected you to be
involved in the ministry of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in some significant
way to this present world! Otherwise, why would you have more than a passing
interest in learning about a deeper Biblical education?

If you have lived as a born-again person of God for any length of time, by now you
must surely understand that the Christian Holy Bible is a SPIRITUAL book that can only be understood with
a “spiritual mind”;
that is, a mind focused on the teaching of God’s Holy Spirit and His guiding you into the Truth of what
God says.

We believe that the Holy Spirit uses Bible Colleges such as the True Hope Bible Institute as an instrument
of instructing those who are divinely called to be servants and leaders in the ministry of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Ministering exemplary edification, equipping God’s people to live successfully as God’s children,
as well as presenting God’s Truth to lost souls who so desperately need the spiritual salvation provided
only in and by Christ Jesus the Lord!
At this point in your some serious decisions play into your considerations!

You can choose to simply pay some money for a printed certificate stating you have a degree in something;
OR, in order to give you a stronger resume in hopes of landing a “better position”, you can enroll in a
school that will give you books to read and information to sort through with a guaranteed degree;
OR, you can enroll in some state commissioned - or even a religious sounding - liberal arts college
which carries a government approved academic standing;
OR you can choose to open your heart to the Holy Ghost in order to be truly edified, equipped and
engaged in the Truth of God.
To choose the latter is the choice to be genuinely, spiritually successful!
The True Hope Bible Institute is a that school focuses on helping you achieve that latter choice - -
and there are numbers of other distance learning schools that are of very high spiritual quality and that are
Biblically sound and quite devoted to the Lord Christ Jesus! Whether you select the True Hope Bible
Institute or not, if you are serious about what God’s will for you in life and ministry may be, I pray that
you choose a Bible College that is far more concerned with imparting divine understanding to you than
meeting governmental standards of academia!
With all thy getting, get understanding! To understand means to be able to correctly apply acquired
information in real life so that real life is successful! What good does it do a person to have lots of
knowledge (acquired information) if he or she is not able to put it to practical use in real life? What we
find is people spouting off information they have accumulated along with their opinions about why that
information is important - - but a mere glimpse of our culture today proves that not many Saints are
actually drawing useful abilities from this acquired information which they are actually using (practicing)
in everyday life!

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